Uttarakhand election results: BJP breaks a spree of records

New Delhi, March 11 -- Uttarakhand voters have broken all records in the assembly election by giving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a sweeping mandate, election results released on Saturday by the Election Commission show. The BJP on Saturday became the first party to get a three-fourths majority in the assembly.
The BJP's win in the hill state has created a number of records in its electoral history.
Sixty-eight percent of the voters turned out this time-the highest ever in an Uttarakhand assembly election since the state was carved out from Uttar Pradesh in 2000.
According to prevailing trends, the BJP could end up with four-fifths of the 70 seats in the state.
This is the highest ever number of seats and vote share won by any party in Uttarakhand. According to trends as of 1pm, the BJP was leading in 58 seats with a vote share of 45.7%.
The highest number of seats won by any party in Uttarakhand previously was 36 by the Congress in 2002. The highest previous vote share was also won by the Congress in 2012 (34.03%).
These figures gain more significance given that Uttarakhand has had a history of instability in state governments. No chief minister, with the exception of Congress's Narayan Dutt Tiwari, has completed five years in office.
Outgoing chief minster Harish Rawat's government too was rocked by internal turmoil in the Congress party's Uttarakhand unit that led to a brief spell of president's rule in the state last year.